A new community-level public health data portal is now available in Cook County.

The Cook County Health Atlas enables residents, community organizations, researchers and public health officials to easily access, analyze, and download neighborhood-level health data from 26 cities and 176 zip codes in rural Cook County. A searchable database that you can use to The portal allows users to see over 100 health indicators and visualize them in maps, charts, graphs and tables for free.

Atlas is a collaborative multi-agency project facilitated by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Cook County Public Health Department and Metopio, and funded by the Chicago Community Trust. His PHAME Center at the UIC School of Public Health oversees a database running on a Metopio-powered interface.

Information from the Atlas to identify health concerns across the 126 municipalities represented and to identify and provide tools for researching and communicating environmental, neighborhood, and other social determinants of health can be used for

Chicago has had its own database for over a decade, but none has been available to provide hyperlocal data about or for Cook County residents.

“We are increasingly learning how important our environment and experiences are to our health. We must start by recognizing that not only are they different, they are also different from block to block and we need to invest in tools to understand these very local differences. Wayne Giles, Ph.D., dean of It involves filling the gaps in

CCDPH’s Chief Operating Officer, Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck, said: “The Health Atlas is an important tool for assessing and prioritizing health conditions and factors in the communities we serve. It strengthens our data-driven approach and enables us to monitor the impact of our programs and services over time.”

The platform includes features for community engagement, advanced analytics and data visualization, and interoperability with the Chicago Health Atlas. Chicago Health Atlas was founded more than a decade before him, but in 2021 he will reopen under similar management by UIC and his Metopio, developer of data, analytics and visualization software. I was. .

Metopio CEO and co-founder Will Snyder said: “Communities need to have easy access to data. They also need to be able to leverage data to understand population and location, regardless of their data science background. Empowering will foster collaboration and create opportunities to establish meaningful policies, partnerships, and programs with positive impact.”

Many metrics are already available in Atlas, but additional metrics will be rolled out gradually over the next year.

Metrics already in the Atlas include currently available data on community health assessments, social vulnerability indices, communicable disease prevalence and opioid mortality.

Phases 2 and 3 will include the addition of other data currently available. Phase 2 includes 2018-2020 mortality and fertility rates and high school self-reported health information via the 2020 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. Phase 3 will include a summary of inpatient and outpatient data for 2018-2020.

Phase 4 — scheduled for spring 2023 — will include the results of future studies, including the 2022 Cook County Health Study, which will be conducted in the summer of 2022, and the 2022 Youth Risk Behavior Monitoring System, which will be conducted in the fall of 2022. included.